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The Sphere Packing Problem in Dimension 4

Deep Bhattacharjee  *
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Ushashi Bhattacharya,Shounak Bhattacharya

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27 June 2026

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29 June 2026

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Abstract
We prove that the optimal sphere packing density in $\mathbb{R}^4$ is $\Delta_4=\pi^2/16$, achieved uniquely (up to isometry) by $\sqrt{2}\,D_4$, for all packings including non-periodic ones. The proof reduces to a Voronoi-cell lower bound $\mathrm{vol}(V)\ge 8$ via shell localisation, support-function containment for root-aligned configurations, and a coordinatewise-monotonicity reduction to a finite atlas of $176$ Weyl-orbit chambers.
All $176$ Gram-spectral sum-of-squares certificates are confirmed by exact rational arithmetic.
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